„When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.“

„I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!“

—  Denis Leary American actor and comedian 1957

Standup routines, No Cure for Cancer (1993)

„I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.“

—  Nick Hornby, book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

„If the CIA is the emperor, you're asking us to say the emperor has clothes when the emperor's bosses say that the emperor doesn't. I mean, how can you ask the court to say that at this point?“

—  Merrick Garland American judge 1952

[2012, ACLU v. CIA, Merrick Garland, Oral arguments, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]; quote then excerpted in:
[Mike Scarcella, http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/03/dc-circuit-revives-public-records-suit-over-drone-documents.html, March 18, 2016, D.C. Circuit Revives Public Records Suit Over Drone Documents, March 15, 2013, The BLT]; quote then cited from this source subsequently in:
[March 18, 2016, The Quotable Merrick Garland: A Collection of Writings and Remarks, http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202752327128/The-Quotable-Merrick-Garland-A-Collection-of-Writings-and-Remarks, Zoe Tillman, The National Law Journal, March 16, 2016, 0162-7325]
Court opinions and media comments

„I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, book Dear John

John Tyree, Prologue, p. 4
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

„It's important to be open to new experiences. I recently went to Disneyland for the first time in 20 years. There were three of us 60-year-olds on a rollercoaster, screaming our heads off. It was white knuckles all the way and I loved it!“

—  Lulu (singer) Scottish singer, actress, and television personality 1948

I'm through with having Botox, says pop diva Lulu, 2008-03-31, 2008-03-31, Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=550849&in_page_id=1879,

„C’mon, Tally. Don’t you want your clothes, your keys? Oh wait, how about some dignity? (Kyrian)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

„My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.“

—  Lionel Messi Argentine association football player 1987

„I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.“

—  Sophie Kinsella, book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

„So when people ask me whether being in the White House has changed my husband, I can honestly say that when it comes to his character and his convictions and his heart, Barack Obama is still the same man I fell in love with all those years ago.“

—  Michelle Obama lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States 1964

2010s, Democratic National Convention speech (2012)

„love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

„The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.“

—  Benjamin Graham American investor 1894 - 1976

Source: World Commodities and World Currencies (1944), Chapter V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56

„At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers the one I was destined to be most strongly affected and dominated by was music.“

—  Hermann Hesse, book Gertrud

Source: Gertrude (1910), p. 4
Context: At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers the one I was destined to be most strongly affected and dominated by was music. From that moment on I had a world of my own, a sanctuary and a heaven that no one could take away from me. Oh, music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to to depressed spirits.

„My protagonists, male and female, are me. And so I must be able to recall exactly what it was like to be five years old, and twelve, and sixteen, and twenty-two, and.... For, after all, I am not an isolated fifty-seven years old; I am every other age I have been, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven... all the way up to and occasionally beyond my present chronology.“

—  Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007

The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)

„Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age.“

—  Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Context: Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age. The novelty of these things, as well as some consequences which followed from them in contradiction to the physical notions commonly held among academic philosophers, stirred up against me no small number of professors — as if I had placed these things in the sky with my own hands in order to upset nature and overturn the sciences. They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction.<!-- ¶1

„I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.“

—  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832

(1773), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies http://archive.is/tOo5z (1961), Beacon Press, p. 53

„I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.“

—  Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950

Source: Tears of the Moon

„When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.“

—  Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

Better Nutrition magazine (March 2004) http://jennifer-beals.com/images/press_images/better_nutrition/better4.jpg.

„I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.“

—  Gabrielle Zevin, book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

„It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.“

—  L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919

"Julius Caesar: An Appreciation of the Hollywood Production" in The Mercury (15 June 1916)
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